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To: Wiggins
Yeah, that's the beauty of the laptop. I use VLC player to play everything and it does well. IMO, If someone wanted to make a million dollars they would take a capable media box and learn to hack it.

Then you could make the changes you want to make the perfect player in a box. If you could write "apps" for it, you could make personal folders, specific web sites and other things all show up on the screen for a one click play. I'm reading that Roku doesn't even have YouTube as an app. Seems strange to me to make someone go to Chrome and type in the address each time. One of my desires is to get Gateway Worship video's to play on my 55 incher with 80watts per channel stereo. It would be about as easy to type in the address on the laptop as type in the Roku each time. Not everybody is that enamored with just going to Netflix and Hulu each time.

The WD player seems to play everything right now, but I'm still reading.

30 posted on 08/07/2013 11:06:15 AM PDT by chuckles
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To: chuckles

I was going to splurge for the WD player but I hesitated because of everything I have connected to my two big HD sets. I’m in the process of putting together an alternative to cable tv for when my cable contract expires so I built an I7 media server in my basement with 10 Gigabytes of storage to start out. I ripped all my DVDs to the server and so far it’s nice. I agree with you though about the laptops. I have one that I use for television media and it works pretty good. What I am thinking of doing is building two more micro atx tower machines for the big sets. They are cheap to build and I don’t monitors for them so saves some bucks right there. It just needs enough power and decent graphics card. Using a solid state hard drive also speeds it up considerably. Your also right about VLC player it works great and plays almost any file extension.

Plex lets add YouTube to the Roku but I’ve never tried it to see how it works.


31 posted on 08/07/2013 12:08:55 PM PDT by Wiggins
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